Michael Toney

@rustbeltmike

37 he/him Chicago, cycling, cfb, things of that nature

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Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· 9d

This would have been a great Halloween costume for us if we'd known each other in like 2014

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· 11d

Huge oversight to not invite Matt Campbell here

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· 26d

Here's Chicago today, it's so cool how this is an annual thing now

Two pictures of downtown Chicago from the same angle on the freeway. On the left (today) we see mostly obscuring smog and outlines of the nearest buildings. On the right, we how it looks on a clear day, including the Sears Tower in the background, which we cannot see through the smog of the first pic

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· 28d

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Jun 10

They look good

A picture of my new "In Memory of Riley O'neil" sticker next to an older "bike grid now" sticker on a Riley Rack

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Jun 9

Slightly tangential and sorry we didn't get it done sooner, but a buddy of mine is printing out a bunch of these stickers. If I get some to you, can you help distribute to people who will attach them to Riley Racks?

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Jun 6

Ready for some psychic damage?

Next year the PlayStation 3 will be older than the NES was when the PS3 launched

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· May 31

Ladies, if your man isn't texting his friends with at least this much tenderness, you should dump him

A text message exchange between two loving friends

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· May 30

The only thing I'm a RETVRN guy about

A map of interurban tram lines in the Midwest

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· May 27

@rincewind.run relevant to your interests

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mangaluva-deactivated20220930

unpopular opinion: Vimes is kind of drama queen

Sam "held a burning hot coal until it nearly took the skin off his hand while maintaining perfect calm and eye contact with the asshole in need of intimidation Just Because" Vimes? Sam "sitting on the stoop with a mug of cocoa and a cigar, cautiously aware of every inch of the scene he's building" Vimes? Sam "could just tear his sleeve to show the mark of the Summoning Dark but instead tears off his whole goddamn shirt" Vimes? A drama queen? Reaching a bit don't you think

thestuffedalligator

Mar 12, 2018

mangaluva-deactivated20220930

Yep, certainly doesn't seem to describe Sam "pretends to eat poison as a power move" Vimes. Not Sam "buries an axe in the table in the Rats Chamber" Vimes.

I mean are we really talking about Sam "yes a whole room full of candles with wicks dipped in holy water is the best way to beat this vampire" Vimes, here? Sam "has fought bad guys on top of a speeding train AND a riverboat during a flood" Vimes, really? Definitely Sam "nearly gets shot in the head by a crossbow bolt that shatters his shaving mirror and then uses the bolt to prop up a shard of said mirror to finish shaving" Vimes we're discussing here?

davetheshady

Feb 20, 2020

excuse me?????

vimes did not resign from his post in protest, observe the rest of the watch resign from their posts in protest, recruit them into a militia, sail to the country they were at war with, and attempt to arrest two different armies for disturbing the peace so you could sit here and call him a drama queen, as though drama was some myffic quality bestowed by an accident of birth and not the inherent right of every creatively petty and histrionic citizen of ankh-morpork

vimes is a drama public employee

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Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· May 22

Obligatory

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Apr 30

Had to block this account for the last panel here

Post with 4 images of Commander Riker

The last one says, "Ska: the world is broken but I've got a fucking trumpet"

A TRUMPET!?! RIKER PLAYED TROMBONE YOU ABSOLUTE POSER

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Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Apr 6

Hot who has only seen the boss baby, watching his second movie: getting a lot of 'Boss Baby" vibes from this...

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Mar 13

💞💞

A receipt for a $42.35 donation to Jamie's fundraiser, which was the score the last time our almae matres played in football

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Mar 13

I finally remembered to post my thirst trap!!!

Me, a tall hairy white man with dark hair and beard shirtless, showing prominent chest hair

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Feb 23

😬😬😬

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Feb 21

Men will say "hear me out" and show you the most conventionally attractive woman you've ever seen. Meanwhile, women will say "hear me out" and show you this thing

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Feb 3

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Feb 1

Maybe you should move to balmy Chicago

Screenshot of weather app. 28 degrees, feels like 19

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Jan 28

I think this might be the saddest reddit post I've ever seen

Reddit post

Do most people really get hugs when growing up?

im an 18 year old dude and was chatting about childhood up to about the age of 10 years old, with some friends. started to realise how little physical affection i got as a kid (and even now tbh) potenially becausei only had my mother growing up as my father had passed away so she might have some issues of her own/was too busy to really interact with me early on in life but is it really that common for family to hug each other? becausei can only recall two times where i was hugged as a kid.
Edit: thank you dearly for all the responses. It has given me much to think on. But some good news i did ask my mate for a hug.
It was nice.

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Jan 28

Hall of Fame levels of not getting the joke here

The 20th Dryjacker @faintpeesmel.bsk.. 2h "Bill Belichick isn't a Hall of Famer because he damaged the integrity of the game. And now a word from our sponsor, DraftKings!"

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What Integrity

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Jan 27

Absolute heater from @parkermolloy.com today

But it wasn’t unknowable. It is literally the job of political journalists to know what politicians are planning to do. It is the job to read policy documents, to track personnel, to notice when a candidate praises an organization on video and then claims to know nothing about it. This is the work. And yet, when advocates and experts did that work and tried to warn people about what was coming, they were dismissed as partisan or alarmist. When Trump lied about his involvement with Project 2025, that lie was treated as a fact that needed to be carefully weighed.

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Jan 26

Apparently it's UpScrolled?

Headline from the verge

TikTokers are heading to
UpScrolled following US takeover /
UpScrolled is a platform for sharing photos, videos, and text, and it aims to remain 'impartial' to political agendas.
by Emma Roth Jan 26, 2026, 11:47 AM CST

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Jan 22

Among the many obvious reasons this is stupid (it costs $2,000/lb to send stuff to orbit, cooling in space is difficult b/c there's no convection or conduction) this post by a former NASA engineer educated me about the problem of cosmic radiation causing chip failures taranis.ie/datacenters-...

$GPUS and TPUS and the high bandwidth RAM they depend on are absolutely worst case for radiation tolerance purposes. Small geometry transistors are inherently much more prone both to SEUS and latch-up. The very large silicon die area also makes the frequency of impacts higher, since that scales with area. Chips genuinely designed to work in space are taped out with different gate structures and much larger geometries. The processors that are typically used have the performance of roughly a 20-year-old PowerPC from 2005. Bigger geometries are inherently more tolerant, both to SEUS and total dose, and the different gate topologies are immune to latch up, whilst providing some degree of SEU mitigation via fine-grained redundancy at the circuit level. Taping out a GPU or TPU with this kind of approach is certainly possible, but the performance would be a tiny fraction of that of a current generation Earth-based GPU/TPU.$

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Dec 20

Mateer right now

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Dec 18

They should call it, "The Better Things Aren't Possible" pod

Internethippo tweet from July 2017

Just got back from the centrist rally. Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and changing "better things aren't possible"

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Dec 6

ESPN trolling Georgia fans

Georgia when leading at half
Kirby smart
Vs Alabama: 0-3
Vs all others: 90-1

Michael Toney@rustbeltmike· Dec 5

Hoping these price tends continue so I can bet against him being the nominee sometime in late 2027